Just going to post randomly from the list of bands I like.
Steel Attack (Power metal)
Lonewolf (Speed/Heavy Metal)
Savage Circus (Power Metal/Melodic Speed Metal)
Made of Hate (Fomerly known as Archeon) (Melodic Death Metal)
Rebellion (Heavy/Power Metal)
Artas (Melodic Death/Thrash Metal/Metalcore)
Iron Fire (Power Metal)
Rage (Heavy/Speed/Power Metal)
Elzevir (Folk/Symphonic/Melodic Death Metal)
Battlesoul (Folk/Melodic Death/Power Metal)
Falconer (Folk/Power Metal)
Luca Turilli (also Luca Turilli's Rhapsody) (Symphonic Power Metal)
Suidakra (Melodic Black/Death Metal with Folk Influence)
Messenger (Heavy Metal)
Pharaoh (Power Metal)
At The Gate (Melodic Death Metal)
Be'lakor (Melodic Death Metal)
Wolfchant (Pagan/Folk Metal)
Insomnium (Melodic Death Metal)
Battlecross (Melodic Thrash/Death Metal)
Kreator (Thrash Metal)
and I ALWAYS recommend Savatage! You always hear of Metallica and Iron Maiden and the other big bands, but I almost never hear anyone talk of Savatage!
sub-genres are confusing. I just call it all Metal
